KMSU Every Day Is Earth Day

Jan 09 2025 162 ep. 25 mins 7

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KMSU's Karen Wright hosts a series of interviews with experts on Saving the Earth.

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The Landfills are filling up: Where should our waste go? 1-09-2025

Jan 09 2025 25 mins

January 9, 2024 The Blue Earth County Property & Environmental Resources/Waste & Recycling Division is seeking public input on proposed changes to its County Solid Waste Management Plan. Mark Manderfeld and Taylor Piotter discuss how you can learn about, and have input into this Plan at an upcoming Open House on Jan. 21, 2025.

Harvesting the Power of Volcanoes 12-19-2024

Dec 27 2024 25 mins

Dec. 19, 2024 Magma Power, LLC, is pioneering energy technology to harvest the power of volcanoes for renewable energy. Magma Power CEO, Levi Connor, spoke with KMSU's Karen Wright about the proprietary system designed to safely, efficiently and cost effectively extract geothermal energy from magma reservoirs.

New Type of Long Lasting Battery, Toby Bond, researcher at Canadian Light Source 12-12-2024

Dec 17 2024 32 mins

Dec. 12, 2024 - Toby Bond is a Senior Scientist at the Canadian Light Source (CLS), Canada’s national synchrotron facility, where he specializes in x-ray imaging of batteries and fuel cells for companies doing industrial R&D. Bond says what’s most exciting about the research is that it suggests we may be near the point where the battery is no longer the limiting component i

Witnessing Climate Change in one of America's Last Wild Places 12-05-2024

Dec 05 2024 25 mins

Dec. 4, 2024 Author and Explorer, Jonathan Waterman, has witnessed first-hand the effects of climate change in one of America's last wild places - the Arctic. His recently published book, "Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis," draws from his life's most profound journeys over the past 40 years. Despite the unfolding climate crisis, Waterman shares his ho

COP-29 with J. Drake Hamilton of Fresh Energy in Azerbaijan 11-21-2024

Nov 21 2024 28 mins

Nov. 21, 2024 Fresh Energy's J. Hamilton Drake represented Minnesota at the COP29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan this past week. She witnessed the historic 2015 Paris Agreement in support of the global response to the threat of climate change, and has attended nine COP summits. She shares her insights with KMSU's Karen Wright for "Every Day is Earth Day".

AP Climate & Environmental News Director, Peter Prengeman, reports from COP29 in Azerbaijan, Nov. 14, 2024

Nov 15 2024 27 mins

Nov. 14, 2024 Global Climate and Environmental News Director, Peter Prengaman, leads the Associated Press global climate and environment team. Prengaman was at the COP29 Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan when KMSU's Karen Wright talked with him about how U.s. President-elect Donald Trump's win last week will affect international efforts to combat climate change.

Young People Making A Difference in the Environment with Luke Drummer 11-07-2024

Nov 07 2024 22 mins

Nov. 7, 2024 Recent college graduate, Luke Drummer of Mankato, is hoping to make a difference and improve the environment. He is a member of the Conservation Corp of Minnesota and Iowa. Learn about how he is having an impact in the communities of Eagle Lake and Lake Crystal.

Environmental Justice with Michael Wilson Becerril 10-31-2024

Oct 31 2024 29 mins

Oct. 31, 2024 The Living Earth Center is hosting its 19th Annual Earth Conference - From Extraction to Regeneration: The Future We Create. One of the keynote speakers of the event, Michael Wilson Becerril, who is an activist scholar specialized in Environmental Justice, spoke with KMSU's Karen Wright about the consequences of extraction on both the environment and human societies.

The Blue Plate: A Food Lovers Guide to Climate Change by Mark Easter 10242024

Oct 23 2024 30 mins

Oct. 24, 2024 More than a quarter of the dangerous climate-heating greenhouse gas emissions produced around the world today come from food. Mark Easter, Senior Research Associate at the Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University and author of "The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Change" talks about his research on the carbon footprint of food and in

The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere with Rob Jackson 10-17-2024

Oct 21 2024 27 mins

Oct. 17, 2024 KMSU's Karen Wright talks with one of the world's leading climate scientists, Rob Jackson, who is Chair of the Global Carbon Project, a senior fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment and Precourt Institute for Energy, and author of "Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere."